Kids Playing the Recorder on the Subway | Video

Your Worst Nightmare: A Subway Full of Kids Playing the Recorder

Remember the awful, squeaky, whining sounds that echoed throughout the room when you played the recorder with your classmates back in elementary school? Well, thanks to this video, we now know that the sound is even worse when there are almost 50 kids playing the instrument on an NYC subway train — for 40 minutes. A New Yorker told The Gothamist, "It was cute for like five minutes, then the best/worst form of torture ever." Listen to the nightmarish chorus of recorders in the video above, then check out more must-see viral videos.